Burundi vs Yemen: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Burundi

0.1195 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Yemen

0.1259 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Burundi rank

176th

Yemen rank

173rd

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Burundi
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 0.1259 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.1195 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Burundi, a difference of 0.0064 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times Burundi's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Yemen ahead.

Burundi ranks 176th and Yemen ranks 173rd of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source: Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.